The co-creator of Thieves World presents the exciting sequel to The Forge Of Virtue, in the series based on the popular Ultima role-playing games. A plucky band of adventurers returns to Britannia to find that it has been overtaken by a dark and evil...
TWIN ELMS INN WAS BECOMING A THREE-RING CIRCUS... ...featuring the disappearing act of an eccentric rich girl and the psychic hired to find her. Innkeeper Kate Yancy has all she can do just to live there, let alone manage the place--coping with a be...
LOVE SPELL According to legend, there was only one way for Nic Delarue to end the infamous LeBeau curse on his family: marry a LeBeau--specifically, Jerralee LeBeau. But headstrong, outrageously unconventional Jerralee was the last woman in New Or...
The Fabulous Lai Tsin Empire...The three met in the aftermath of San Francisco's devastating 1906 earthquake - the Mandarin Lai Tsin, a runaway American heiress, and a young Englishwoman. Against all odds they made their dreams come true, building on...
A WARSHIP FROM THE PAST... Frozen beneath a glacier for more than fifty years, the Japanese World War II supercarrier Yonaga was all but forgot-ten. Now a particle beam satellite launched by the Red Chinese has rendered the Earth's high-tech weaponr...
Lola is brought from a foster home in Melbourne to the country town of St. Helen by the wealthy Eyres when she is five, but it isn't until eight years later that the secret of her true identity is slowly and painfully revealed....
THE PROPHECY Amid the green hills of ancient Ireland, beautiful black-haired Grania chose to follow the old ways and live as a healer and spell-giver. Then came the prophecy that turned her deathly pale. A warrior of the very king who had decreed ...
A recently divorced special agent whose job is at risk, Joe Hope seems to be spiraling down to the depths of despair as he tracks a serial killer through the swamps of south Florida and becomes entangled in a passionately dangerous love affair...
Four people with special qualities are brought across parallel universes to help their fifth member, Nona, the ninth child of a ninth child, overthrow the despots of her home universe and deliver power over to women. Reprint....
Virginia refused to trust Guy Sterne; though her family thought the entrepreneur and financial adviser was just the man top help their fabric firm out of difficulties, she knew of his ruthless reputation within the design business. She was able to te...
CAPTURED BY PASSION From the moment Autumn Grey encountered Flint McCord, she was drawn to his bold silver eyes and lean strong frame. But the beauty was no fool -- Flint's past was a mystery and his future dangerously uncertain, so Autumn steered c...
Be all that you can be ... in Phule's Company Clumsy, inane, sloppy, reckless, idiotic. They're the laughingstock of the military. Their latest mission: to guard an intergalactic casino called the Fat Chance from an unlikely criminal takeover... ...
Six stories blending ancient Greek mythology with modern, upper-class Manhattan, from the author of Skinny Island.Louis Auchincloss once again evokes the beguiling world of New York society that he has made his own special literary landscape. Inspire...
Ever since her baby, Jessica, was snatched from her cradle, Gwyn Martin has experienced strange dreams and visions of a psychopath with a hunger for revenge, and soon she is engaged in a macabre game of hide-and-seek with the kidnapper...
Spirited ladies...dashing gentlemen ... notorious rakes...scandalous lovers ... all the romance and intrigue of St. Valentine's Day in an exquisitely beautiful collection of stories by five of the most beloved and highly acclaimed Regency authors. He...
Marriage as a business merger -- or a hostile takeover? Serena Winslow Wright. She was proper Old Boston, her blood the bluest of blue. John Bourque, on the other hand, was a rank outsider. Wildly successful, vitally masculine and terribly sexy, ...
UNDER THE BIG TOP... Craig Hollister was a troubleshooter, all right-six feet of lean muscle sent from some fancy bank to shoot trouble all over Rachel Donelli's family circus! Well, no rugged ex-marine was going to bark orders and tell her ho...
CAPTIVE OF DESIRE Brandy's amber eyes lit up with outrage. It was bad enough that she'd been taken prisoner aboard the Odyssey, but then to be presented by the rowdy crew as a "gift" for the captain's enjoyment! With his stormy g...
SOUTHERN COMFORT Bonnie Jean Harland and Carter Jackson Moody--their fiery teenage romance had ignited gossip in their small Alabama hometown. Youthful passion had led Carter to defy his powerful family and defend Bonnie Jean's reputation ... unti...
Was the reward worth the risk? Juliet Osborne was steeped in family tradition and old-fashioned values. Then she met Ross Stafford, a jazz musician, sometime actor and teaching assistant, and he turned her world upside down. He was a man who wante...
How to handle a heartbreaker... "What sends bachelors running for their lives? Weddings and babies! Start looking at furniture, develop an interest in expensive rings, muse aloud about the names you're going to give your children." ...
THE SURVIVAL OF HUMANKIND Imagine a universe whose force of gravity is one billion times stronger than today's. Human beings have detectable gravity fields. Stars are only a mile across and burn out within a year of their formation. Centuries b...
"You can ruin or save her." It was blackmail! Yet how could Sheona Murray refuse when the alternative meant the end of her flamboyant sister's modeling career. Not for the first time, Sheona fervently wished she hadn't been born...
Ex-Secret Service agent, Joe Hallenbeck, and suspended football quarterback, James Alexander Dix join forces to investigate the murder of Dix's girlfriend, an investigation that uncovers blackmail and corruption in the world of pro football...
Fifteen years ago, youthful fears and stubbornness had torn Jenna and Blake apart...and neither had ever quite recovered. Blake had built a life in Boston, but a part of him still ached for Jenna. Jenna had stayed in the Minnesota wilds -- but secret...
As a novelist, art critic, and cultural historian, Booker Prize-winning author John Berger is a writer of dazzling eloquence and arresting insight whose work amounts to a subtle, powerful critique of the canons of our civilization. In About Looking h...
Berger reveals the ties between love and absence, the ways poetry endows language with the assurance of prayer, and the tensions between the forward movement of sexuality and the steady backward tug of time. He recreates the mysterious forces at work...
Deals are struck. Secrets are kept. And justices compromised... . Ben Kincaid wants to be a lawyer because he wants to do the right thing: But once he leaves the D.A.'s office for a hot-shot spot to Tulsa's most prestigious law firm, Ben discove...
He was her dearest friend, the protector and champion of her childhood who sheltered her from lifelong fears and haunting memories. He was the only person she ever trusted. But not even Daniel Crocker knew the shattering truth about Susan Hurst's...
Lucy Hill visits her friend in Saratoga Springs to solve a mystery at the racetrack and finds that people in the glamorous world of high society will do anything to win, including fixing races and kidnapping jockeys. Original....
Bear can't sleep because the moon's not out. So a few sleepy friends help by singing a moon tune, hoping to coax the moon out and get Bear back to bed. About The Bank Street Ready-To-Read SeriesMore than seventy years of edu...
Barbara's bracelet of little hearts breaks--but she succeeds in turning this disappointment into a Valentine's Day surprise for the whole family. This is a story that will be loved and remembered all the year round, by Newbery Medalist Joan W. Blos. ...
When fresh money hits The Street, it's stockbroker Donald McCarry's business to know about it. And when it's a halfbillion-dollar investment pool, it's McCarry's pleasure. Gentlemanly Gustav Raab's funds, flipped a few times a year, can provide McCar...
English teacher Sarah Deane and her boyfriend, Dr. Alex McKenzie, leave snowy Maine to join Sarah's feisty Aunt Julia for Christmas at the exclusive Rancho del Gato Blanco resort in Arizona. But they soon realize there's no place like home for the ho...
"I'M PREGNANT!" Steve Saraceni couldn't believe his ears. The love-'em-and-leave-'em political lobbyist had always managed to come away from his relationships with no hurt feelings and no strings attached. But now, bright, beautiful Michelle Carey...
A chestnut-haired widow helps Joseph Burke recover from a series of blows after his wife leaves him, his boss at the newspaper demotes him to writing obituaries, his mother is killed in a car accident, and he moves in with his depressed father...
Qwill's on top of the world when he rents a house on Big Potato Mountain. The owner, J.J. Hawkinfield, brought real estate development to the once-peaceful Potatoes. But Hawkinfield paid a steep price for his enterprise: He was pushed off a cliff by ...
When Michael's old girlfriend Beth begins dating Renee's brother Vincent, Renee finally feels certain that Michael is over Beth, until Vincent and Beth are in a motorcycle accident and Beth relies on Michael for support...
Deception and desire Dimitrios was convinced Ria had broken his nephew's heart, toying with his affections then jilting him. He thought her only interests in life were having fun and captivating eligible men! And he was determined to teach he...
It was a time of loyalty and betrayal, of danger and destruction, when the pomp and gentility of the old South disappeared forever, and plentiful plantations became bloody battlefields. And in the midst of this ungodly turmoil two step-cousins discov...
No surrender Claudia couldn't run far enough or fast enough to stop the relentless torment of her soul. She'd been driving the car that took her daughter's life -- and six years hadn't made a dent in her wrenching grief. And the...
A thought-provoking novel of a sentient spaceship’s voyages, from the Hugo Award–winning author of Stand on Zanzibar. One of the most important science fiction authors. Brunner held a mirror up to reflect our foibles because he wanted to ...
IT'S MAPLE SYRUP TIME! When Stevie is invited to Vermont to visit her friend Dinah for the annual sugaring-off event, she's not sure that she wants to leave the rest of The Saddle Club behind. But then she finds out that Dinah's riding class is havin...
In Greenmantle (1916) Richard Hannay, hero of The Thirty-Nine Steps, travels across war-torn Europe in search of a German plot and an Islamic Messiah. He is joined by three more of Buchan's heroes: Peter Pienaar, the old Boer Scout; John S. Blenkiron...
COULD SHE LAY THE PAST TO REST AND MAKE EDEN THE LAND OF NEW BEGINNINGS? Paradise, Texas, had been Jessica's home -- until rustlers murdered her parents and forced her to run for her life, the words "half-breed" searing her soul. Th...
Awakening to find himself embalmed and buried in his own grave, David Brent clawed his way to the surface to find himself transformed, a walking corpse, abandoned by his mentor, and tortured by a relentless thirst ... BE CAREFUL OF WHAT YOU WISH F...
HEART'S DESIRE Valentina Jardine had always looked forward to Valentine's Day for it was also her birthday. However, this year promised to be rather different than most, for her cousin Libby was determined to play matchmaker at the Valenti...
An American opera singer travels to Naples and becomes embroiled in his strangest role yet Michael Ruane is an obscure American opera singer who arrives in Naples to play a small part in an important production of Tosca and star in his own staging ...
Flaxen-haired heiress Margaret Belleweather had traveled halfway around the world in search of her errant brother. Now, in sin-filled Singapore, where every misfit and black sheep ended up, she had come almost to the end of her search. Determined to ...
U.S.S. Liberator -- sailing the oceans of a nuclear-ravaged world on the most dangerous mission of all... survival! A radio call for help has reached the U.S.S. Liberator from the shattered metropolis of New York. Two families have somehow managed...
By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution. For Albert Camus, the urge to revolt is one of the "essential dimensions" of human nature, manifested in man's timeless Promethean struggle...
From Granny Catchprice, who runs her family business--and her family--with senility, cunning, and a handbag full of explosives to sixteen-year-old Benny, who dreams of transforming a failing automobile franchise into an empire--and himself into an an...
This is the story of one woman’s march to success and search for true love. Anna Maria von Bock leaves Berlin, the glittering capital of Imperial Germany, where storm clouds are gathering. It is Anna’s dream to become a lawyer â€" possible in Ger...
Dora and Nora Chance are a famous song-and-dance team of the British music halls. Billed as The Lucky Chances, the sisters are the illegitimate and unacknowledged daughters of Sir Melchoir Hazard, the greatest Shakespearean actor of his day. At once ...
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MICHAEL MOORCOCK Angela Carter was one of the most important and influential writers of our time: a novelist of extraordinary power and a searching critic and essayist.This selection of her writing, which she made herself, cov...
THE UNWILLING BRIDE Raised to despise all men, Ashley had no choice but to marry, for a cruel twist of fate sent her to the planet that was mankind's last hope for survival. There, colonists had one duty: be fruitful and multiply. Forced to find a m...
I WANT TO BE ALONE! Privacy -- Paul Martin, a.k.a. Jason St. Clair, needed it more than anything. And finally, he had found the right place -- Lake Bryant, Vermont. Folks here didn't make a practice of butting into their neighbors' busines...
A unique anthology of erotic and romantic writing on married life and love by some of the most renowned contemporary fiction and poetry writers, including Raymond Carver, Laurie Colwin, and John Updike....
SOME LIKE IT HOT Shop owner Hilary Gardiner sold red-hot sauces, but her life was ice-cold boring ...until sexy Mac MacDougal came speeding into it like a fire truck on its way to a three-alarm blaze. Never mind that his store was driving hers out...
The P.I. from the U.K. She's street smart, Tart tongued. And very, very British. Meet the sassy star of an award-winning private investigator series. Anna is rescued from the tedium of touting security systems for rich clients by a savvy American f...
THIS BEAUTIFUL VAMPIRE IN SUNGLASSES AND BLACK LEATHER WANTS IT ALL -- Heavenly sex. Hellish vengeance. And love darker than sin. Because this temptress of evil cannot live by blood alone.......
EXTRA! EXTRA! EX-HUSBAND STILL IMPOSSIBLE! by Kathleen Wilder St. Louis, MO-- Mel Riggs, rugged, romantic and this reporter's professional rival and ex-husband, was still hopelessly old-fashioned. The man thought that wives in the workplace were a ...
For LAPD homicide cop Harry Bosch - hero, maverick, nighthawk - the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic. This one is personal. The dead man, Billy Meadows, was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat" who fought s...
Elinor O'Dare, a fabulously successful romance novelist and widow of a dashing British World War I pilot, has raised her three granddaughters with deep care and affection, lavishing on them privileges and luxuries, preparing them to be gracious wives...
Robin Cook is back - with his most shocking story of medical conspiracy since COMA...Today, organ transplants are common miracles of science. But if the supply cannot meet the demand, how far will people go to find donors? Dr. Laurie Montgomery, a fo...
TO SEEK A LIFE...IN DEATH On her eternal quest to rid the world of the evil she had unleashed upon it, the wayfarer Indigo has been many things: penitent, messenger, pilgrim. And perhaps now an avatar for the dead? For Indigo's journey has l...
Convinced that a single serial killer is responsible for three seemingly unrelated murders, Willow King, a dowdy civil servant and best-selling romance novelist, must use her novelist's imagination to search for the missing link...
SOMETHING'S COOKING! They called her "Apple Annie" because of the creative way she used apples in her catering business. Now, after years of serving delectable meals at hundreds of Chicago events, Annie Rafferty was ready to realize a life-long dr...
After a team of scientists disappears on a fossil hunting expedition, leaving only a diary that contains a mysterious diagram, its leader's daughter joins a slew of other crazed explorers in searching for what the diary described as "a discovery like...
Lindsay Foxe is a successful model, a beautiful woman who hides behind a new name to protect herself from a past of betrayal and treachery and a present filled with sinister shadows. The product of old San Francisco wealth, the daughter of a man who ...
Miss Sir Caradoc Rhys's 90th birthday party? Madoc and Janet Rhys wouldn't dream of it. It's May Day in Wales, the ancient Beltane. The harps are strumming, the feast is spread, and Rhyses galore are gathered for the revels. There's Rhys the patriarc...
Miss Seeton Accused The kindly Miss Seeton? A thief? A preposterous notion--until the lovable spinster mistakes tomato ketchup for blood ... and the "wounded" man she's trying to help is robbed by a pickpocket. In a flurry of confusion, Miss Seeton ...
Had fate brought them together? Philippa Roscoe needed a large sum of money and she needed it fast -- her father's life depended on it. Wealthy French businessman Alain de Courcy needed a wife -- purely for business reasons. Alain was only ...
He'd discovered the real woman -- but did he love her? Rural New Hampshire seemed as remote as the Andes compared to life in Boston, but insurance investigator Frances Hudson had a job to do. Though her designer wardrobe and flashy car seemed ...
A therapist treating abused children and families in crisis, Wilson Corder faces his most horrifying experience yet when seven-year-old Sabrina Parker is kidnapped and his own children's lives are threatened. Reprint....
A FAIRYTALE-LOVE -- WITH A TWIST... Planning the debut of her unruly stepdaughter was a trying responsibility for lovely Sylvia, widowed Countess of Harmin. And although dashing Bennett Griffith seemed to think her the classic evil stepmother, Syl...
Was it an accident -- or was it cold-blooded murder? Why was Marissa so scared? What was she trying to say when she fell through the ice and drowned, leaving her sister Ryan McCauley floundering in a sea of guilt? Ryan's haunted by the feeling tha...
Marry rich! That's what widow Mimi Carlton wished to do as she blew out the candle on her birthday cupcake. Once, she'd married for love, but with an eleven-year-old son to raise and an estate of $837.67, it was time to get practical! She ...
THE POWER OF ONE ... Nils Jarnhann faces the combined powers of mystic sages and a mongol army a million strong: a challenge even for THE YNGLING....
Obsession At long last, the story of the beautiful dark-hearted Kitiara Uth Matar. This compelling novel tells the story of the birth of her twin brothers, the warrior Caramon and the frail mage Raistlin, and Kit's admirable role in their upbringi...
Sinfully handsome and devilishly sexy, Ben Paradise was a man who loved to gamble, but even he wouldn't have laid odds on the chances of beautiful Lacy Phalen reappearing in his life. When he'd first met Lacy, she was tantalizingly untouchable, heire...
Emotionally numb from the break-up of her marriage, young Georgina Powers--a reporter, computer expert, and private investigator--sorts through the wreckage of London's financial world after the crash of 1987 for her cousin's killer...
Friends, Romans, countrymen, Marcus Didius Falco, Ancient Rome's favorite son and sometime palace spy, returns to aid the Emperor Vespasian himself. This time citizen Falco has been charged with finding the culprits who are plotting Vespasian's imper...
Kyra is Christy's best friend from the youth center. Matt and Julie are Christy's best friends on her block. When Kyra's African-American family moves into Christy's white neighborhood, Christy learns a hard lesson about prejudice....
KISMET Sheltered Creole beauty Bryna O’Toole was raised in a convent in Louisiana, until the day her father sends for her to join him in Morocco. She's just arrived at his Tangier mansion when his enemies kidnap her and sell her to a "marriage b...
He was no Prince Charming! But then, Jade Han wasn't looking for any glass slippers. Or princes. All she wanted to do was design floats. So when her Cinderella Coach won her an apprenticeship with a well-known California float-building compan...
THE KLINGONS ARE PROPOSING PEACE Does this mean the end of war or the end of history? Stardate 8679.25: Internal pressures, enormous military expenditures, and the destruction of their primary energy source have brought the Klingon Empire to the ...
When the boys' conservationist friend, K.D., is shot and wounded while trying to preserve a piece of land in the Colorado Rockies, Frank and Joe search for the culprit among the ranchers, hunters, and Native Americans who have claimed the land...
A Man of Appetites with a Montana Drawl... Cass Starbaugh was six-foot-six of muscled hero with bronzed skin and sunstreaked hair -- and downright irresistible to a redheaded nurse who'd always felt gawky around men! Gayle Stromm had come to ...
THE FINAL JOURNEY The loyal stableboy Rap had fought through hell and high water to rescue Inos, his queen. But at the end of his quest, all his struggle had been in vain. For Inos had already married the accursed Sultan Azak. Her beauty had b...
Tough, book-loving Denver homicide detective Cliff Janeway wants to nail Jackie Newton -- a suspected psychopath who just barely beat the rap for a series of vagrant killings. Janeway is certain his sleazy, sadistic nemesis is to blame for the recent...
As young Ajuzia prepares to leave for America, his grandmother, Nne-nne, recreates the history of their country, Nigeria, through a series of powerful tales, tales he will fully understand only when he returns...
In the Bales-McCord family there are several old people contemplating their final resting places. Two of them--Glenn and Laura Bales--are in bad shape, and everybody is wondering which one will go first. Join them in Summerlin as they attend to the b...
Twelve stories depict the adventures of the narrator's naughty little sister, who is rude to Father Christmas, behaves greedily at Bad Harry's birthday party, and uses her mother's scissors to cut things she shouldn't...
A thrilling new adventure of Theodora and Ran from the author of The Gate of Ivory. Drawn back to Ivory both by her love for Ran and her fascination with magic, Theodora leaves with Ran on an investigation for a noble family, and their mission gets t...
Cooped up in her cabin with a sprained ankle, Jody spends her ski vacation peeking through her window at the activity next door, and realizes too late that she has witnessed the murder of the most popular girl in school...
A preacher's sacred mission becomes a trial by fire for Jessie and Ki in the one hundred and thirteenth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's fronti...
A collection of short stories that combines the formal with the miraculous, such as the film editor who edits his life. It includes various betrayed and traitorous women whose struggles are reinterpreted using a repertoire of fancy and metaphor....
Against her better judgment, Sally May leaves the ranch in Slim’s care. While Slim naps, Hank and Little Alfred subject strawberry ice cream to rigorous product testing and then go for a ride in a mysterious spaceship. But, it’s when Slim finally...
Was it safe to trust him? Everyone told her not to go to John Leopardo. But Kamisha Hammill had to tell him that someone was using his luxurious Aspen health club for illegal purposes. The problem was that John -- the eldest son of a notorious ...
A young American scholar studying in the English cathedral city of Exeter is intrigued by the history of her dormitory and gets involved in a seventeenth-century mystery that haunts the old manor house...
BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON... Rednecks, tourists and criminals were the only kinds of men who ever passed through Flamingo Junction, Florida, and Jace Warfield was no redneck, nor was he buying any souvenirs. The lean, tight-lipped stranger had walk...
Females didn't come much more straitlaced than secretary Abigail Sedgewick, and there wasn't a man born more footloose than mining engineer Nicholas Fitzgerald. So when a joint bequest made them equal partners in the Lucky Lady gold mine, it ...
WOMEN! Shea Delaney just couldn't understand the female of the species. He had gotten along great with his daughter when she was a tomboy--but now she wanted to become a lady. He certainly didn't know what to tell her! In desperation, the widowed ...
“A genuine blockbuster . . . With this novel, Sean Flannery takes his rightful place along such masters as Tom Clancy and Clive Cussler.†-- Ed Gorman, Mystery SceneThe Cold War is over -- followed by a deadlier menace than the wo...
Seven years ago young Gideon was acquitted of bank robbery, but run out of town anyway. Sporting a custom-tailored suit and plenty of cash, Gideon is back with a plan that should bag the real thief. And if the sheriff turns a deaf ear to justice this...
Connie May Fowler grew up in Florida and now lives with her husband in St. Augustine. She received an M.A. in English from the University of Kansas. In addition to Sugar Cage, Connie May Fowler is the author of Before Women Had Wings and Remembering ...
After moving into a dormitory with other students who are participating in an archaeological dig in England, Jennet suspects that someone is trying to frame her for stealing, and she sets out to discover why...
Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of ecological upheaval (a rash of earthquakes on the North Shore) and odd luck: the first one kills his grandmother. Louis tries to maintain his independence, but falls in love with a Harvard seismologist w...
When journalist Edwin Wakefield returns to England suspiciously unscathed by his Middle East captors, his two colleagues are still missing and presumed dead, but one returns safely and threatens to tell of Wakefield's fraudulent escape....
En route to Alpha Malurian Six to settle a dispute between two religions, the U.S.S. Enterprise first stops to do a routine check on the progress of a terraforming colony on Beta Canzandia Three--a colony whose inhabitants include Carol and David Mar...
Tim Desmond, a mere freshman at Princeton University, must battle the forces of evil when his girlfriend disappears, his mother falls in love with a black magician, and the forces of Death and Destruction gather in Poughkeepsie...
The eccentric old lady who contacted Wild-Freeman Publisher's bestselling author might have been crazy, but she was, beyond a doubt, dead. Her ramshackle house contained her corpse, her fey daughter Marie, and a locked box purported to hold the famou...
DARING DEFIANCE Talia Vaughan knew that the most powerful man in the Colorado territory would stop at nothing to take her land. But when his handsome lawyer, Jason Riley, appeared at her ranch to convince her to sell, she was unprepared for the gunf...
Lady Lora Ransdale... Keeping her scheming cousin away from her and her inheritance requires drastic measures. Pretending to be mad -- in a harmless sort of way -- works well. Until she meets Hawk Martin. When her cousin demands that she marry Hawk,...
A DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH For urbane Gareth St. John, inheriting a vast estate in the Scottish Highlands was proving irksome indeed. No only did he despise traveling to the remote property but he was also shocked to discover he had "inherited"...
David Goodis (1917â€"1967) was an American crime fiction writer noted for his noir novels and short stories. His 1951 novel CASSIDY'S GIRL draws on his life in Philadelphia, where he prowled the underside of city life, frequenting nightclubs and seed...
Dr. Helmond discovers a method of reanimating the dead with a violet amniotic fluid, but he oversteps the bounds of science when he tries the experiment on his senselessly murdered daughter who is revived, but altered...
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Michael Meade, attempts to resurrect his fallen career in Cape Town, South Africa and finds himself investigating the theft of a priceless painting by Dutch master Jan Vermeer. In the process, he discovers the real ...
A fast-moving space adventure featuring mysterious aliens, a journey to a de-populated planet, a mad run from space cops, a ship captain in trouble, and her AI (Artificially Intelligent) companion/ship's computer. It is carnival time on Mars, but Tab...
The robbery ended in murder, the killers claimed to be terrorists, and the only cooperative witness feared for his life. Police officer Matt Payne knew the dangers of his profession - but never thought he would be the one needing protection!...
Line of Fire brings to life a desperate mission of World War II that captures the drama and courage of the men who fought it. Two Marines, reporting on Japanese air activity, are trapped on a small Coastwatcher island. A special rescue team is assemb...
CURSED Lawrence Bennet was the mayor of scenic, serene Sarahville. He was also a man with a scandalous past, an unsavory present--and too many enemies. Still, nobody expected him to be found the day of the big crafts carnival in the fortuneteller'...
After being spurned by her best friend and a group of light-skinned, upper-middle-class girls vacationing on Cape Cod, Sarah develops a loving friendship with the Caribbean-born Madame Arnaud and her son Jean Pierre....
The two wizards, Jaldis and Rhion, had dared the dread Dark Well to answer the desperate call of a world without magic. Jaldis had not survived the dreadful Void. Now Rhion was alone in a world he could not imagine -- the world of Germany in 1940.
Nice girls don't fall in love with bad boys! Quilla Kent was embarking on a game she'd never played -- she was deliberately setting out to attract notorious womanizer Fraser McGill. And Quilla was determined to win -- it was the only way t...
A PIRATE'S PASSION Sam Bellamy is a notorious pirate--dark, dangerous, and devilishly handsome. In innocence, young Maria Hallett teases him, taunts him...and surrenders to a scorching seduction that leaves her in disgrace as his ship sails. ...
One Shrink Too Many In the elite office where psychologist Fran Fellowes has set up her first practice, the clients are not the only people who need help. Senior shrink Dr. Miller is a really nasty number, coming unglued fast. But no one on staff ...
While investigating the murder of a twelve-year-old girl, Detective Sergeant Joseph Bragg and Constable James Morton discover clues linking the crime to the murder of a wealthy industrialist involved with patents, explosives, and prostitution...
Frank Birdsong, a popular middle-aged bachelor living in a small gulf-coast town in Florida, finds plans for his predestined marriage to Kitty Montgomery threatened by Kitty's mother, a domineering eccentric obsessed with the past...
Originally published as part of The Dark Descent, this splendid collection of horror fiction deals with humanity's most powerful emotions--fear, love, and hope. Writers include Robert Aickman, Philip K. Dick, Charles Dickens, Stephen King, Joyce Caro...
A FABULOUS FABERGE EGG...A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN BOUND BY LOVE, BETRAYAL, AND DEADLY DANGER In a fine London hotel, he had nearly killed her. When next they met, her hatred and terror melted as he explained their common link: the legendary Faberge "Nigh...